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Akali Release Edition
Wiki for character guides and such (Under construction)
https://wiki.play2xko.com/en-us/
>Official link
https://2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/
>How do I get in?
F2P on Playstation, Xbox, and PC and playable everywhere
>NEW UPDATE
Akali has been confirmed to be the next character releasing on April 7. Senna likely releasing in June/July
Trailer and move list:
https://youtu.be/fT4CwqJNdMU?si=XyFvaVuFrqbRqYiT
https://youtu.be/5cChQ_H5zp4?si=qxfTsVYTJ5xLKprJ
>TWO ECKS KAY OH
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Those dudes helped me a lot. They deserve to be in headliner might make a pastebin one day.
https://www.youtube.com/@EvanAlmightyFGC/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@andygfgc/videos
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summer can't come soon enough. those new chicks haven't been revealed for that batch of skins
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Local about to get approved for free suit and credit farm. Life's good only had to send 'em that link
https://2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/news/community/2xko-community-event-s upport-live-now/
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Old men duo. I wish Fchamp would make YouTube content again.
Comments under that tweet hit crazy: Basement dweller Chris g is a modern controls PUSSY, he looks like he was bullied heavily in school
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>>562374667
i still can't believe we're actually getting pool party darius
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>>562379391
as i told you already, no :) darius and garen would be very sad if i did, and i haven't suffered anywhere near enough yet
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Finally got gold despite all the fucking one and dones. Like damn. Darius assist is really fun throw out though. No clue when to apprehend tho
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>>562380654
At grandmaster+ yes but below Ekko's can't use what makes him broken. Those creatures just hop around and teleport behind you.
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Always when in range but charge it 1/4 of times into frametrap button if they happen to parry. Gold will never block the overhead or interrupt throw
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>>562381405
Gotcha. Thanks for the advice!
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>>562381067
if you mean the assist, apprehend disables pushblock and retreating guard so it's best for when you're already on them with your point character and want to keep the pressure on.
as for on point, it's a great trick at almost every rank to just hold a charge apprehend at the end of your blockstring. people will do almost anything but the right choice (jump). they'll waste a parry and eat shit for it, they'll try to mash and eat shit for it, they'll try to backdash and eat shit for it, you name it, they'll fuck it up. after you do it once or twice, then you can start throwing in uncharged apprehends and really fuck with people.
this works in all elos, but it's harder to do in top ranks just because it's almost impossible to get someone to block darius for more than .1 second up there lol
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>>562381405
>At grandmaster+ yes but below Ekko's can't use what makes him broken. Those creatures just hop around and teleport behind you.
i strongly doubt low/mid elo players can deal with timewinder spam like, at all
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>>562382217
Noted! All of it! Is it THAT bad for Darius up there?
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>>562382670
i don't think he's bad. you can win games with him. the issue is that he doesn't bring anything to any team that another character doesn't do better in every way
felt better when you could actually blockstring bleed people to death but that was removed, which is understandable but also like... there's so much non-interactable gay shit in this game, and that's the 1 thing he has that would never happen at low elo, so like... why
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Soup time. You can strafe from a neutral super jump. Useless but funny Melty Blood homage
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Couch Co-op VS online casual demons finally works. We on to something hopium
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>>562414791
Comment says it's not live yet but it'll be on the new patch
The vid mentions ps5 but I hope it's all platforms, I just want to play with my duo properly
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Diaphone spectating some cait games from the EU tourney a while back
I wonder what it is that na fags don't like cait as much as other regions, the cait player in tns that tops with cait darius is also a Latin America bro
https://youtu.be/f58eULfFPCM?si=w-Mas6L7s0jCIgAB
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https://youtube.com/shorts/_mjcmsOAw-0?si=o4N8wmxx7TyF8iM-
Akali base skin chroma colors
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More thigh fanart please
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i just realized that in the akali mirror, both akalis will probably be able to use the same smoke. like if player 1 puts down smoke player 2 will be able to use it
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That one meme tuber posted again
https://youtu.be/y9QT_e3ppWQ?si=LAXeOlqjIeaiXZbr
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>>562472819
It'd be nice if there were more ways to interact with characters behind you, as it is if you get into sandwich situations out of random scrambles or the like, there's not much you can do to stop the other person from just swapping behind you even if you have a chance to attack their assist
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add her
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>>562486336
If it makes you feel any better there were two yas ekkos in the jp tourney and ikoan hasn't dropped them
Yas ekko stocks might go further down when akali comes out though since akali will be the dedicated point mix character from now on prolly, but it's not like the team is bad, just the metafags will be off it
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>>562487623
https://x.com/2XKOJP/status/2038994792881762561?s=20
I liked the French one too, pretty cool they have dubbed trailers for each account
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>bullied another diamond player into ragequitting
i'm sorry...
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>>562491814
Is that her League VA too?
>>562491853
You monster...
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>>562492341
im not him though im just one of his boyfriends
>>562492320
to balance things out i've 1-0'd red ditto twice tonight
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Twins lost. Downplaying failed.
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Neat!
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Kek
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speaking of parry,
anti yasuo stance hop tech: backdash~parry
beats the common options, and most importantly j[S1]
but loses to empty low
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dude riftbound cards are so cool
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>>562538368
it's safer to make lesbos than homos
saying that, riot has actually canonized a lot of gay dudes though. maybe more than any game ive ever played
pic unrelated but with the way they've been removing "demacia vs noxus" it's only a matter of time
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Leff tier list before the patch and akali
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I pulled a 100 dollar riftbound card from my locals today bros
Never let the man keep you down
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>snk out of literally nowhere
Obsessed status?
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>>562560582
Yeah check my biggest hits kinda tuff no
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>>562561295
leffen is shit at every fighting game he's ever played, the only reason he ever succeeded at strive is because happy chaos was that much more broken than every other character. he's played so many other games and can't get into any of them because he's carried garbage
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if i don't end up liking akali im gonna pick up yasuo, fuck it
im sure my life will be so hard being able to randomly mash meterless cancelable on block higher damage better oki headless whenever i want
(mindbroken)
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this guy is a fucking retard
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What are her chances
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>>562591175
Guess there's absolutely nothing...
Grim
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KEK
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>>562591593
Being 16 cooks your brain. Blaz loves brainrot.
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Smash floaty mirror making evo go behind schedule vibes. Defense is stronger than it gets called out for add an airdash on top of broken base movement and no combo from throw and you got yourself a timeout simulator
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kinda unrelated but you pop in a twitter page of a league or valorant dev, you can see them enjoying all types of games and some are pretty good at them, then you check 2xko dev and they are all talking fgs and nothing else at all lul, kinda shows the problem doesn't it
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>>562597794
idk bro one of the biggest complaints i see regarding league is how shit the devs are at it, how poorly they understand the game, and how because they're shit they have 0 idea of how to balance it. maybe the game would be more fun if they were good at it lol
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>>562597902
more like league is an extremely complex game that when you're introducing a new element, which they are forced to do every year, they can only test so much before getting it out for the public, who has all the time in the world to nitpick their mistakes, at least they know when to admit when they fuck up and roll things back, unlike fg devs
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>>562598123
idk bro point is there have been so many bad decisions with that game over the years that took AGES to get undone
i'm not gonna pretend 2xko's devs aren't a bunch of inept retards though. imagine working on ekko for 10 years and thinking literally anything that character does is okay
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>>562598328
well it does matter re: the game not being fun due to the retards in control of it going out of their way to make it unplayable once or twice a month
is league picking back up? ik they're getting their new (not actually new) engine
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>>562599324
hey kudos to you for having the kind of nerves that takes lol
if you watch any league streamer, big or small, for a day or two you'll see them crash the fuck out so if you're built different from literally everyone else that's epic
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>>562599575
i don't play the game as much as a streamer lol
if i play any game intensively like that it'd get on my nerves, why are we comparing a regular person's experience to a full-time streamer's? you're honestly retarded
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>>562598529
Solo queue in lol is a joke, and duos in 2xko is the far superior social gaming experience than lol unless you're five stacked, and even then it's still shit if you're not all similar skill levels
The only thing I'd give lol over is that there are more alternate game modes and there's more time for parasocial conversations in your game to distract you from the fact that you're playing lol
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>>562600671
you try to act friendly every time to sugarcoat the fact that your game is dead and shit
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>roping another person into suffering through 2xko
you should be in jail
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>>562600792
i try to act friendly during all conversations except re: 2xko game balance because i get heated about that really easily
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>>562577419
Not impossible but I can't imagine she's a priority. I otp'd her after coming back to lol last year so personally I'd love it but I imagine that adding such a recent character when so many beloved OGs are missing would upset most people
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>>562613415
there is a 0 percent chance that they don't buff him again. the community outcry for him has been outrageous with pros downplaying the living fuck out of him and the playerbase desperate to get mixed again because they're such happy cucks. same with ekko now that they think he's balanced for some reason but it might take 1 more patch before his buffs start coming in
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>>562577419
shes in this random jap game instead for some reason
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>practice optimal combo connects 5/100 attempts.
>wtf why do they flip out idk what i should change
>after 2 weeks this too easy could do it blindfolded
Reading and trying combo notations 1st time without video evidence and "delay till they fall to shoulder height after jump medium" makes you question if they got patched out never working but at the same time they aren't hard enough too quick am I alone with that
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>>562626936
theres optimal stuff i haven't learned just because i can't be assed to sit in training for 8 hours figuring out which buttons i'm supposed to delay for 1 frame and the nice people that write this shit don't say anything
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>invincible vs
they finally have enough hot old men in that game to make a team with but it still looks absolutely awful
>tokon
roster bad and im not playing a game with fucking wallbreak hard knockdown again after strive bro
i might give strive 2.0 a week or two but i dont see myself sticking with it
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congratulations your lobbies are somehow even worse than Strives.
https://x.com/vision_KV/status/2040501137330336093
Seriously, how fucking retarded do you have to be not to add a simple button promt that just teleports you to the arcade station?
In fact why do you need an arcade station anyways?
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>>562632060
Nah, the models look good and animations are decent.
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>>562632289
Don't argue with a dude that prefers to play unreleased games aka nothing. Next level game wars based on assumptions
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You are doing the same but vice versa
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>>562633426
I play all fighting games and give them all a chance. I didn't even insult 2xko. The person I'm responding too is more than likely ass at all fighting games and hasn't even played enough to have a decent opinion on what's good.
This tribalism is so fucking tiring.
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idk what you mean bro he looks great during gameplay. lvl 3 could be better but that's all
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ive been playing fighters since sf2 on snes i have 1k hrs in sf games on steam and 1k hrs in guilty gear games on steam. reached master in sf6 and was celestial every month i played strive (dropped it before they added a real ranked mode in year fucking... 3 i think? LOL)
also tried cotw but none of the chars appealed to me, bought lumina and never got to play a match bc i'm not using discord to matchmake
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not gonna say viewbotted but...
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I'd love some normie opinion on sight of that ad. Never saw an ad myself for any fighting game outside of tournaments
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Ahh I remember the good old days, where for like a month straight, posting random numbers would send the resident schizo into a frenzy
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This dude puts in an equal amount of hours into editing as he gets views. Oldschool ai free youtube poop in '26
https://youtu.be/y9QT_e3ppWQ?si=O9F4LLyrDBsbecSE
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i need to stop pressing jm and start pressing j2h
except for the situations where j2h would lose in which case
i need to stop pressing j2h and start pressing jm
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She steps on the toes of Warwick so definitely not soon. But she is popular, the most popular of recent champs I'd say. Her design also favors a fighter but we know these aspects don't mean shit to how the devs pick whose coming.
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placing my bets (mindbroken)
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i wouldn't get my hopes up
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Ost for kali is out, and it likely confirms that she will come out with her own dedicated stage still
I'm guessing it'll be part of her early unlock bundle since there isn't a new battle pass
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Unlock events are neat for a their free cosmetics. Helps for those pesky casuals to gain whole roster especially when starting late in to its lifecycle.
With current size it's overkill. Takes like 20 hours for all characters and maybe 80 hours until you bought every taunt, color, cosmetics for 2-4 characters and free credits turn obsolete. Wonder how many people spend money on anything but skins.
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The more I look at the Akali 2XKO redesign, the worse it gets
Like, how did they fucked it up that bad?
Why did they fuck it up?
Why do they need to reinvent the wheel?
It fucking reeks of an "up and coming artist" attempt at "putting a modern spin on a classic design!"
Like, why cover her back?
Why give her some gay baggy pants with some fucking sneakers?
Why give her a fucking sideshave?
Why give her a comically large and puffy ponytail?
Why give her a fucking manface?
She looks so ass
Like, actually so bad
I think I'm done with the game, like genuinely
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>>562722094
>Why give her some gay baggy pants with some fucking sneakers?
>Why give her a fucking sideshave?
They know that the majority of the fg is minorities so they thought a more urban look would be a hit
>Like, why cover her back?
>Why give her a comically large and puffy ponytail?
>Why give her a fucking manface?
She was too feminine and sexually appealing it was obviously problematic and had to be changed
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>They know that the majority of the fg is minorities
You can say niggers
They were trying to appeal to niggers
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They released a separate single with akali too, they really want her kda audience
https://x.com/Play2XKO/status/2041169056271589404?s=20
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>spirit blossom ahri
Ahri won
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>>562739713
I can't believe it took them this long to change it, people were asking about it from day 1
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>>562739713
Akali's launch skin, her blood moon skin is available during evo
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>You can no longer perform parry after Handshake Tagging for 15 frames.
Hitler is dead
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Huge patch for evo, vi and illaoi charged moves into tag got the teemo treatment, ekko can't rewind to beat break, tag parry got removed, and darius got a one frame buff on his assist
It's like everything people were asking for
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darius unchanged, blitz "better 2h" and a bunch of placebo
i think it's very funny that they're removing the 1 hit of shield on braum's super
some decent nerfs to ekko but surprised vi illaoi and ahri mostly got away with it all
biggest changes seem to be system stuff
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honestly though i don't mind that this is a smaller patch. the last one wasn't very long ago and they actually hit ekko's rewind beating EVERYTHING which is one of my biggest points of annoyance + his install ends when he's hit by anything. i might actually start rematching him now
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The biggest winner of the patch, both their normals got buffed a fair bit
Cait getting to do her follow up shot if her first bullet got parried is huge, and the assist buff is nice
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>Cait getting to do her follow up shot if her first bullet got parried is huge
i didn't read her section because i don't play her and don't understand her well enough to know but uhhh
what the fuck
i'm so fucking doomed dude
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I don't think this fighter is for me lads it feels too floaty like the animations just don't have that snappy feeling
but maybe I am just trying to force myself to play a tag fighter when I don't really like tag fighters
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>>562746384
It was so punishing against the faster characters who could run up full screen punish after one parry, she needed the zoning buffs
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so I wonder what you people are thinking, like it's obvious to anyone that the game will shut down, if not this year then next year for certain.
what is your perspective on that, like you are playing a game you know will shut down, and it's a live service game, you probably won't be able to play it again, or maybe there's gonna be an emulator and it's gonna be some really niche discord fighter.
do you guys think about that or do you just not care that you are putting time into a dead end?
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>>562748708
the thing is I really enjoyed old league of legends, and a lot of people I know did, but we can never go back and play it, we are fucked, it's like the game is erased from existence, and I never got bored of playing it, so there's always that feeling of incompleteness in my mind.
it's probably going to be different with this one because emulating it will be much easier.
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>>562748468
yeah that's fair, i'm happy for you
>>562748587
all things in life are transient
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>new content
>character release grind for free2play fags
>feature that should have been available on release and is dependent on if you play with people locally
>offline tournament bullshit that has nothing to with the game itself
The fact that new cosmetics takes up twice the space is exactly why this game is in the gutter. Riot should have out sourced the entire game to a Japanese or Chinese company.
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>Chinese company.
That's what riot is owned by thoughbeit
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New lobby, themed lobbies are going to be cool, I wonder if it'll have the same ost or get some new songs for every lobby event
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also forgot to mention, darius DID get a big buff in the form of the active tag changes. i cannot tell you how many FUCKING times i've pressed 5L to jab an assist, only for them to active tag, press their faster 5L, and I eat shit for it. this change is nice
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this is very neat desu
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This patch is looking great honestly. Shocked SB is being used without Yone though since that's HIS skinkine. They'll probably do a wave 2 with Akali Riven and him.
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I saw the two lines of Darius "changes" and went "ohhhhh no." Cause if you, but at least something good came out if it!
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i'm not convinced the meter build changes are gonna matter much, both super meter and break meter, especially bc they've changed those a few times in the past and we're still being ahri super looped to this very day, but the active tag changes genuinely look really good
perhaps this is an indicator of yone (though if the skinline returns i need my big scary oni darius desu)
the zoners all getting buffed is really scary though i may be cooked
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>>562759235
>he thinks i'm falling for the arcsys meme again
lol they're not even fixing happy chaos in ggst they're making him even more fucked
i'm not paying 70 bucks for wallbreaks big dog but i hope you enjoy it. they'd have to bring out some real laser-targeted-at-me characters to get me to play it, and they'd need a lot since you need FOUR fucking dudes to build a team and currently the only char in that game i like is wolverine
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>>562758721
Oh yeah Darius does have a SB skin huh? Alas I must wait for mine. Kinda hope they give us an option to change our lobby themes. Would be sick. But yeah Yonefriend convinced they're never adding "China's favorite" to the games despite that a team up with his brother is right there kek.
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I'm on Xbox so probably not. Also I already play enough Rivals for my Cap fill.
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>>562759676
Eve has a nice spirit blossom skin too, I hope she gets in
Them putting out a rap song for akali release is definitely a sign they're aware that people still want kda, so I could see one of the other two kda members getting in and getting a bundle together
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>>562764594
It's her prettiest skin for me. But yeah I saw that rap stuff too and am hoping it's for KDA, but Qiyana is the dark horse of that too. I have no doubt they'd all get in, but I want my wife first kek. I think Leffen had said something like that too. That after the Arcane bundle they'd replace it with a KDA bundle which I can totally see them doing.
>>562766336
True. I think him and Sett have the best chance of getting in. Then Zed and Kayn
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>>562769694
i wouldnt just buy whatever bum says, dude's probably the game's biggest hater outside of twitter randoms
dude's a fucking moron too, managed hoc so bad the thing had to close down for like a year because he didn't know he had to pay taxes or some shit like that
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>faster burst gain
>limit strike meter gain nerf
>retreating guard and parry meter gain nerf
>ahri meter gain nerf
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>>562748587
I'm honestly playing for the plat. There's that sort of phenom that happens when something goes offline and it's not available anymore, like PT. So I'll keep playing for that and play off and on afterwards.
Also it's sort of why I tolerated playing Smash Ult: it was the only way to play Sephiroth and Sora and Joker. etc. in that capacity.
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>>562725269
undercuts are not an urban thing and we don't really like them like that
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woah holy fuck
I literally learned suboptimal combos because I hated how inconsistent her fucking medium was for converting this is crazy
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>insert vi brain .webm
You deserved it bro, get fucked
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>>562789696
akali is gonna be fucking vile dude i think you're gonna like that team a lot
her teleport bullshit seems like a faster safer version of vi swaying thru opponents with more mix, im pretty sure you'll get a similar flavor just way more fucked up with her
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So I guess with the parry change, Cait not getting a followup shot on shooting through projectiles was actually intentional, it wasn't listed under bug fix
Guess they thought cait potentially getting a full combo through beating other projectiles was too good
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>break and meter changes mean this game is about to become all about "can you react to the reset jumpscare
I LEFT SF TO GET AWAY FROM JUMPSCARES NO NO NO
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I really shouldn't jerk off again but...
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>>562816840
if this becomes a reset based game then we're literally going to have to memorize every single possible reset setup on every single team of characters and be ready to tech the air grab or the reset hit after
oh god oh fuck
like there's no way it gets THAT bad but im not looking forward to it, getting hit with a reset (and resetting people) feels so fucking grimy every time
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>>562373592
This is just sad. Also if tomorrow the fucking in game chat is still broken; riot is definitely shutting this game down by the end of the year.
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>>562817242
Holding down to fast fall avoids all air grab resets and 0,1% of players labbed a grey combo in case they expect you to go for that.
I love that approach keeps long combos in theory but in practice it's much closer to early Japan meta where they went for short routes to build least amount of break.
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Fchamp & ChrisG applied but got shoved due to saying watermelon 7 years ago.
Now we can enjoy total strangers infernasu, iheartjustice, infinitesge.
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secret cupcake lunch. tried offline launching during maintenance but no new patch
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>low damage characters in tag games
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>>562874285
yeah mostly just shitposting anyway, that's the damage on her expert 5 and if you hit that shit you probably deserve it, i saw it and didn't even wanna try lol
this char might be more than i can handle...
>>562874308
yeah which is weird because it's such a set height to work with. you wouldn't think it'd be inconsistent or hard
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back home and messing around with her
the expert 5 combo does 766 without the meme starter
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>fought my first post-patch cait
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Can we talk about her having a light + heavy target combo with 3 extra buttons to add in a game with free form chain system enabling her to vary between frametrap, gapless and delay?
L > L > M > H > H > H > S1 spaced to be -5 > (Yolo S1) and we'll be stuck for ever.
Welcome back Phonon
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>>562877072
it's going to be a few days until i can unlock her
she seems significantly better. even just "can now followup with another bullet even if you parry it" is gamechanging, im scared
>>562875332
>casually does the hardest akali combo
i swear youre built different lol. the damage is crazy but at least it builds a full bar of burst :^)
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>>562878089
lol.. it's actually not executionally difficult, desu
yasuo's sweaty combos are harder
just mindfucky to think about the walljumps
it's really cool that the wall jumps are actually relevant for her, because ww's.. basically an unused part of his kit
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i had some weeklies left over (play ahri and yasuo, do dmg with them, etc) so im doing them and man. yasuo and ahri are both pretty fun to play. i'll never play ahri for personal reasons but having actual movement is really nice
>>562879514
hmm... i guess it'll come with time. she feels so awkward to me in every way rn
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>>562881815
>i had some weeklies left over
storing weeklies for chars you don't play seems to be a good idea desu. you could prob unlock a new character in 1 day of playing if you saved enough
i stupidly did a bunch yesterday and wasted them because i thought i could buy akali with points but either way, i'm already at 4k towards akali
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Alright I'm home. How is she so far bros?
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That's what I did. Now I just gotta suffer in casuals with them kek
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Nvm, akali doesn't have a costume code
I'm assuming the maskless kali in the trailer is emote only, but it's not in the game yet
Shame, base skin without the mask would have been a lot cuter
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Wtf this actually got stealth nerfed and it wasn't in the patch notes, though it might have been a bug fix since cait's eject didn't work like the other characters I tried this with
They changed the area the character lands after cait ejects someone, so if cait wants to cross up she has to walk much farther now and you can't cross up in the corner anymore, it's vaguely reactable now instead of a straight guess on incoming
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>>562898704
What was wrong with them before?
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played a few games with the homie, and verdict is her assists are so fucking bad
i remember when people tried to say yasuo's were bad lol
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>>562906678
you are a dev shilling the game to the 5 people still playing in this thread
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>>562866226
riot finally woke up and started making good skins only took them forever
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>>562906678
this looks evil
but damn yeah her assists seem really weak. was hoping to make it work but it might be a struggle with darius, he needs a good assist to have a chance hrmrm...
>>562907796
i think if you want to play her you should try to stick with her for at least a week or two before you decide it's not gonna work out
there's always growing pains when learning a new character, because you're so used to being able to do your character's stuff that it feels like "how the hell can i not do the basics on this guy" you feel me
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>>562914420
dude just genuinely cannot fathom people enjoying their game bro
you go look at any other fg general and it's just people pissing and crying about how much they hate their games and 0 actual discussion let alone clips (which especially makes sense in sfg considering dix is unclippably dogshit)
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>>562907796
while there's tons of sweaty stuff for akali,
you could just learn this generic combo and be 90% of the way there
the only trick to the combo is delaying the first jH after 2H jc, both times
and then every other part of the combo is autotimed
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akali's so fun, i love her movement so much... not sure how to go about opening people up yet.
>>562915894
ohhh, ty anon, don't mind if I do, that doesn't seem that hard. the loops visually look a bit wack, though, lol.
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>Max playing 2XKO
Akali really saved the game...
>>562913294
Yeah you're probably right. She feels so alien compared to Ahri. I still need to see if that 3H, jump cancel, into air 2H is optimal cause if so. I am boned.
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>>562916802
luckily, the '3H j2H5H' seems like a relatively low damage option
i've seen easier and better things to do, like '3H j[H]'
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Get it get it
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https://youtu.be/U_90XNCBatY?si=tPG9x4gBdf1ScPjY
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>>562924745
Oh yeah she isn't. Fucking took me forever to do expert 1. I can't imagine the last one.
>>562925141
I'm sad there isn't a KDA nod. Also man I miss Laura as Ahri.
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>>562934975
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>>562936731
There's no modern game with harder combos and it's nice to find your own route because many are viable sacrificing either a little or more damage, lower break gain, closer or farther corner carry.
Hard to take you serious. You're only here for unfathomed hate as entertainment.
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ok akali backflipping for every backdash is kinda heat
they should give that to qiyana when she comes out too her backflip animation after her crit animation is the best
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>>562875332
expert 5: 2H j2HH [S2] wj j2HH 5M2H ...
new: 2H jH [S2] wj j2HH dj2HH 2H ...
it's both easier to do, and higher damage
win/win
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>>562950479
>By this time a Sf6 character would be solved
lol what? They get figured out quickly but not that quickly. Look at Mai for example. People thought she was "Meh" at first and she turned out to be a monster.
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>>562956779
I wonder what the new fuse will be when they've left freestyle the way it is this whole time, they've even acknowledged several times that it is way too popular and drowning out the other fuses competetively
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>>562956779
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>>562956779
>Riven
>Yone?
>mystery nigga?
Honestly I can't imagine them being able to push out another champ to release in 2026 unless they're heavily reusing assests or they finally unscrapped Katarina which would be redundant since Akali seemingly just does what she does.
>>562960168
Fuck it. Sure.
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>>562956779
Apparently the champ that comes after Senna is the one that was pushed up the pipeline out of nowhere
https://x.com/i/status/2041895100830322873
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>first game of the day in casuals
>find a guy that's clearly better than me on a 20 game winstreak, better neutral, better combos
>lose 0-2
>decide to keep playing to try to work on my neutral and for the next 9 games lose 0-2 every game
>finally win 1(one) singular round before losing the last game
>both of us emote ggs after the set and move on
This game is so fun bros
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>>562937704
I don't play this game, so no, I won't do your meme scooby doo combos.
>>562937046
>There's no modern game with harder combos
I don't play modern games, see me in xrd noob.
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>The skin that fixes Akali's design costs more than an actual video game
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if this game was 1v1 I would have played it, I almost got baited a few times, but then I watch a match and fuck off.
today I got interested cause of akali, opened leffen's stream and saw how he had 1 character in front of the enemy and another behind and I closed the stream
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>because champ 4 is the one that wasn't there before
it's katarina.
they deconfirmed her, and put her on the backburner
but then they realized 'wait, marlinpie COOKED with akali.. it's time'
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>>562956779
Riven, Yone, Evelynn
Trust (coping)
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>>562975803
Hmm on one hand my friendship to Yonefriend wants Yone, but Garen would be funny to see for Dariusbro. It's tough.
>>562961090
>xayah and rakan and they do a double drop or smth
This, but Evelynn and Kai'sa for the big music event.
>>562975932
Kek that's why. Though if you remember names it doesn't really help.
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>>562976592
i deserve to be rewarded for sticking with this game + shilling it for years
i'd be happy for others to get their characters but im going to be selfish right now. i need garen
>>562977215
sick ass pull but why's it in chinese
is it bc scalpers already bought literally every pack of english? (not trying to be rude or anything i just know tcgs always have this issue)
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>>562977459
chinese booster boxes are 1/4th the price of english ones
Yeah its scalpers but its also just a supply and demand thing china has had more reprints because the sets been out longer and also chinese people dont care about the game as much
i just wanted to see some staple cards that are impossible to find in english anyways but damn i actually made bank somehow
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>>562956779
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Trying to think what champions could be made into the 4th release in time using the roster we have.
>Ahri = Irelia?
>Darius = Garen
>Ekko = ???
>Yasuo = Yone
>Jinx = ???
>Illaoi = ???
>Braum = ???
>Vi = Sett
>Blitz = Thresh?
>Teemo = Kennen?
>Wick = Briar
>Cait = Jhin
>Akali = Katarina
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>>562977459
That do be true. I was a huge hater when they were stumbling with Arcane champs, name, and delayed console release. So I agree with you on that
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Akali guides are up
Neutral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wSq8DT8Bcg
Combos by Evan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLyfDq-k9w
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Uhh that's not a good sign...
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>>562988206
Year 1 & 2 characters are 95% finished by now. They aren't starting to code those from scratch now.
Point is they are doing good and listening and yet your kind is going: but how can I complain and flopcheer
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>they have 2027 characters planned out already
Mf confirmed next year
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>>562997457
i can add
>for a fighting game*
if that helps. yeah it should have been a bigger hit but surprise surprise gamers do not give a fuck about celebs and actors and do not want to play as them, they want to play as the characters, which is why tokon's gotten such a good reception
that first impression is everything. i didn't once hear "BUT IT'S A TAG FIGHTER!" about mvci
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>>563007161
LoL is still huge even if it had a slight downturn. I agree that the game has gone to shit, but gooks and chinks will still play it anyway because they're enslaved
Valorant is still popular with SEAmonkeys, for whatever reason
But yeah, every single other attempt they have made at expanding has flopped. Which is probably for the best. Fuck Riot. I was excited for the MMO at one point, but now I know that the MMO is vaporware and will never see the light of day. And even if it did, it would 100% be pure unfiltered dogshit
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i don't think you can handshake parry headless anymore guys
kami may actually be back on the menu
>>563007270
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>>563007714
>LoL is still huge even if it had a slight downturn.
it is huge but it's falling down fast and will soon smash into the ground. their operating costs are too high, LEC is run at a yearly loss of $15 million, they hope to get that and more back through selling skins but I don't know a single person around me who still plays the game, when a few years ago everyone and their mom did. that's why they added WASD controls, and that's why they are remaking the game next year.
a korean ex pro I watched said the game is dying fast in korea because no new people are picking it up, they see it as a grandpa game, NA is the region with the biggest loss of players and viewers, and for China I don't know but even though there's a lot of chinese their country is a commie shithole and I find it hard to see that the average factory worker will spend the little money he gets on league skins
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okay, but consider this
>costs 1 meter
>doesn't give oki
>it's the character's one and only tool for dealing with projectiles and zoning
which is worse: an entire archetype being able to just shut me out completely and i lose on character select, or me having 1 metered option to deal with it
also, people already play turtley as fuck against darius, 99% of my matches is just chasing backdashers lol
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>>563010392
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>>563009591
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>>563010392
This must be a couple rough days for you huh?
I used my playing the damn game card
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for whatever reason, it's inconsistent whether you can block or not
in both cases, i'm holding back and mashing T
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I don't have a champ token
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Lmao I hope akali is broken and reddit has a meltdown about backdashing again, she has the best back dash in the game for sure
Also her kunai do a lot of chip damage, that might be their best use of the smoke kunai move
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>random fullscreen supers
There's nothing wrong with this though
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>>563036669
To spread character usage evenly. Look at Sf6 Mai easy + sexy = 25% of playerbase stick to her.
Meanwhile a KoF Angel does it right. She needs a lot of work to be put in if they want to choose a main based on their peepee.
Akali is a pitslut but based on her difficulty she can afford to have d cups and half the amount of clothes
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Played a bunch of pulse combo juggernaut akali
She has easily the best movement, akali can run circles around big body characters and play the footsies game dashing in and out extremely well
It was a serious struggle doing well with her since akali with bad combos does negative damage, and half her specials are designed to be used with assists, but she's really fun to move around in neutral with
Even if you don't know any crazy assist setups, you'll be able to get pretty far just working on moving around with her in matches and having any half decent combo/tag launcher route
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>>563043245
>you'll be able to get pretty far just working on moving around with her in matches and having any half decent combo/tag launcher route
this is kind of my goal with her, just using her to get in, mix, and then tag to darius
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>>563043245
her movement is so good, it's to the point where i feel clunky on ahri
she reminded me of what a proper anime game felt like
i miss home..
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>>563050346
I can't wait for the inevitable seethe of the shill influencers, especially since they are probably also going to hate the fact that Strive patch nerfed stuff instead of buffing. Will be fun to see Sajam struggling to keep his fake nice guy persona while seething over the Strive patch.
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>>563050717
2xko patch is goated. Less super meter gain, lower damage, higher burst gain, active tag nerf, local duos online. Akali has broken mix but a lot of flaws like hugging level of damage on tight execution and high break gain, worst assists, being coverup assist hungry herself. I don't wanna go back to Strive due to its fanbase which you are a prime example for.
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>>563051729
She is kinda hood with her Yeezy's and undercut. Skintone turned latin they know fighting games are for minorities
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First time seeing a 2xko VTuber. Impossible to hook japanese zoomers.
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>beat a dude 2-1
>alt f4s at the end of the last round
>queue back up
>it immediately makes me fight him again
bro if you're gonna ragequit at least ragequit for real
>>563090603
>We look at the data to determine if any champion has a surprisingly high Pick Rate or Win Rate. Specifically, Pick Rate is our most important metric, as at the highest levels of play, individual player performance can impact win rates. If Ekko is seen in 40% of matches (it has never gotten this high) it implies that he is a must-pick champion, even if Ekko has a 50% win rate
oh god these morons are trying to balance a fighting game as if it were a team comp based pointy clicky assfaggots game...
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every time i fight a top player they teabag dude
the fgc is so heckin wholesome
also i just had such a close 0-2 vs maze but lost both games to stupid shit (me dropping a combo on one, him getting a lucky happy birthday with ekko on the other)
i think ekko is mostly "merely the best character in the game" now, though. like he's no longer SSS, i'd just put him in S. still busted, but i'll actually play against him
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>>563097153
would you pair ekko with raphael or latch
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>>563100494
never touched lol is yone good
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>>563102941
I think he's super cool. Essentially a cryptid for Ionia that hunts demons, or the weeb versions that go by Azakana, after his brother Yasuo killed him (Riven's fault btw). Then in Spirit Blossom was going to pass on till a demon/azakana decided to suck on his face. Thus bringing him back with powers like a demon.
https://youtu.be/u9fFG4ZLp9Y?si=nWVHMByWe_ehQDBV
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>>563102941
define "good" because while he's very popular and people enjoy playing him because he's fun and "cool" (subjective) he's almost equally as infamous and people dislike playing against him. I think most people agree that outside of gameplay he's completely fine tho and in a fightan game setting he probaby wont be nearly as cancer as his brother
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>>563119203
i do too desu
ekko seems soooooo realistically beatable now
also it has been so fucking funny watching illaoi players muscle memory attempt to charge tag and they just shoot out a dinky little attack that goes nowhere
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>>563097153
wow
riot actually saved 2xko?
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>>563102941
Imagine literally exactly what Yasuo is
Okay now imagine he had two swords
Okay now imagine he has an Ekko rewind clone he can make every 10 seconds
Ok that's Yone
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akali is so cool bros
this game will actually be real in a few more characters i cant wait
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Why do Californians think women don't have breasts
Why do they think male and female chests are the same
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>>563137084
comp maybe finally worth watching wow
>>563132213
it seems that ekko has finally been nerfed from mugen character to 2xko character
still probably the best imo but not unbeatable
still lots of "durrr whoopsie i didnt even mean to do that but ur gonna die for it xd" moments fighting him but it's like 30% less gay now
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it'd be nice to come up with a way to use the in-place teleport, and cross up by pushback alone
this one is just a gimmick, because you're like -10 after the tp
not that i even got to try it mid match
people still get hit by the first air teleport
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>>563143183
If you aren't doing any actions you can press something during super freeze, I'm think I remember seeing that it's like this so you can press parry during the freeze and have it come out
Also because I think Ive pressed a button accidentally during freeze and got smoked when I was blocking before they supered
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>>563145487
i'm guessing it might not work, because the teleport probably doesn't start up fast enough to become 'active' and invincible
in the clip, i was already just randomly pressing teleport, so it was already much later into its startup
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>>563145487
>Also because I think Ive pressed a button accidentally during freeze and got smoked when I was blocking before they supered
this does indeed happen and it drives me fucking nuts
if you're on the ground and catch yourself accidentally pressing a button during the flash, you can press parry and cancel it into that but if you're in the air i think you're fucked
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>>563148565
Closest thing is Caitlyn for a zoner with a bit extra airmovement. Haven't seen a hover dash except for Morrigan and I-No.
AdvancingGuardTV earned himself a sub
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>>563149665
Never say never. If they happen to change their mind and increase breast sizes for a core values update she the one.
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Hardest team Akali//Caitlyn vs Akali//Ahri vs Akali//Teemo?
One more question: isn't air schmix kinda bad? You always need an assist for it to be tight otherwise 1 frame is enough for late 2h and blow you up. Only air crossup makes sense as 2h doesn't autocorrect fast enough and you have to hold plus frames
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huh neat
you can overflow past the credit cap
>>563161713
akali caitlyn
1f is not enough, because 2h has some startup before its air invincible properties become active
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I want to like this game, but I have no inspiration to actually learn any of my characters.
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>teleports behind you
Heh nothing personal, kid
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>>563092218
>oh god these morons are trying to balance a fighting game as if it were a team comp based pointy clicky assfaggots game...
It doesn't work for LoL either, it's one of the worst balanced games I've ever played.
Riot always tried to turn everything into a process, mostly because they hire incompetents so they don't know what they are doing.
They even published a chart once, something like if a champ has 40% winrate then he will get a nerd, if he has 50% then he will get reworked.
It's the most incompetent game dev company in history, you guys will learn soon enough. The reason why the cannons were able to turn the 2xko into nepomaxxing land is because riot was always like that, around 2012 was an exodus of all the skilled individuals and the execs brought in all their friends, initially they released a new champ every 2 weeks, but now they release a champ every half a year and it has a braindead copy paste kit that they already released 10 times in the past, usually having to do with doing extra damage on the 3rd basic attack hit.
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>>563216837
>chaewon
https://x.com/forumbunklr/status/2042371451244699767?s=20
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i could have sworn they said akali's command grab super was an invincible reversal but i've been trying it and getting hit out of it
but i also feel like other people have been able to do it to me
idk what's up with that
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>>563220590
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>>563220905
it's like vi's super1
before the super freeze, you can be stuffed
but after that, you have invul
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>>563234907
Soon yordlebros
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>rioters are editing their matches against ecelebs instead of adding Qiyana to the game
grr
https://x.com/jarod_mp4/status/2042649811476676989
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>>563234623
because boobs are nice
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this is also a disappointing interaction
her air teleport is fast, but it only steals the corner if the opponent is standing,
because of how the collision boxes interact with each other
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~16f to cross up with the enhanced teleport
~27f to cross up with the normal teleport
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>>563258995
the attacking portion whiffing over the low to the ground opponent is fine, and reasonable
attacks can whiff over crouching opponents
but when a move is designed to 'teleport behind the opponent',
and it does not 'teleport behind the opponent',
it doesn't make sense
it's unintuitive and the opposite of 'well made', imo
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>>563256847
crazy that she's seemingly the lowest damage out of all of these and yet it's like this lol
it ain't bothering me yet but i haven't got much play time with her either
i will say the big thing i noticed about the patch, while i was grinding to unlock her, is that the break meter changes are HUGE for my blitz/darius team. against certain team comps i legitimately got 4 fucking bursts in one match lol
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>>563262528
Might be another Caitlyn situation with first week pros being confident she is top tier just to end up bottom 3 right after.
Corner damage and with walljump cancels enabling her she's insane but midscreen is whack
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>>563268772
>listening to fg players EVER
sf6 "pro players" took months to admit that ed was good and they couldn't clock mai as busted the instant she was released
2xko "pro players" swore up and down yasuo wasn't top 5 like 4 patches ago when every single day you'd fight so many yasekkos you'd ask what the fucking point was
you wanna listen to fg pros? how about you go check out that one strive patch leffen made where he put happy chaos in mid tier LMAO
i'd take randoms on 4chan over those stupid fucks any day
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>>563265093
hope you're enjoying bro
i'm having a ton of fun with her just playing juggernaut mostly and losing a ton. i haven't hit the lab at all either, just trying to get a handle on moving her around the screen before i start trying to add setups and real combos
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>>563262528
>4 fucking bursts in one match
haven't played my old team since the patch to feel meta play, but yea
it's not as bad as just plain deleting combos from my char,
but it's still not a good feeling being very strongly encouraged to do short (read: boring) combos
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went to check cait real quick, and.. 80% buildup for spending 1 bar. wow
you're actually not allowed to do fun combos if you're trying to win
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my gut reaction is that this kills my interest in playing the game (in a competitive capacity)
what's the point of coming up with cool shit if i'm really supposed to ABC jABC?
i don't want to play this kind of game
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>>563280618
It's the devs way of trying to eat their cake and have it too: They allow 50 hit combos that last 40 seconds to appease comboboar autists while also making the optimal combo rather short in an effort to appeal to those that dislike long combo autism. In practice you get worst of both worlds, combo autists are displeased because they feel like they aren't properly rewarded for their autism and people with functional brains will still occasionally have to sit there for 40 seconds twiddling their thumbs while nothing interesting happens.
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>>563282765
>combo autists are displeased because they feel like they aren't properly rewarded for their autism
pretty much
i like gradually adding to my combos over time, but now the game is discouraging that?
because apparently what i already have is way beyond the pale
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i kinda doubt they'll leave it this extreme, definitely a turnable knob. god knows they've spent plenty time moving things up and down already
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BRO! WHY IS THIS GAME'S INTERFACE DESIGNED BY ABSOLUTE IDIOTS?
I download this again, I see pick related, I click on it, nothing happens.
BRO! DID THESE TARDS NEVER PLAY A GAME IN THEIR LIFE? HOW THE FUCK, TELL ME HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO TO UNLOCK HER, WHEN YOU CLICK ON IT THEN IT SHOULD GIVE ME FUCKING DETAILS BROOOOO NOTHING HAPPENSSSSS
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>>563281521
More like there's no reason to do this combo if you just want a limit strike ender, imo longer combos will still be worth to go for it if you want to dump meter and put them down at one character with fury left
Almost every optimal combo had a built in way to get limit strike or choose to extend and dump more meter, so you'd see people do the same long combo route every time since there wasn't any reason not to
For the viewing experience it'll be better if people are forced to learn a different combo route and vary more what they do, and desu big body fags needed the buff since the optimal combos two touched them like every other character
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if I ever see any of you tag slop animals irl again I will bitch slap your fucking gay ass immediately, you fucking niggers and latinxes.
I'm done with your tagslop garbage, this could have been a good 1v1 game if your gay ass niggers wouldn't have changed a white man's game which is seth killian's into a fucking nigger tagslop, you fucking faggots don't let me hear you about your gay ass marvel ever again you fucking subhumans, holy shit, you are fucking done and out of the fgc.
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>>563305761
>DID THESE TARDS NEVER PLAY A GAME IN THEIR LIFE?
no, most of them are just FGtards and barely any of them have any actual game design credentials, and they only focus on things that only fg turbotards care about, and even then they're bad at it.
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When I'm knocked down and blitzcrank comes next to me to try and grab me I hold up like in any other fighter to jump so he can't grab me but he grabs me before my jump activates, how does this braindead game work?
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>>563309120
this game has a wakeup roll option, that's performed by inputting back or up+back (?)
what's happening is your char is rolling, which is punishable by grab
so first you avoid the roll input window, and then you hold upback, up, or upforward
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>>563309403
I don't understand what you are saying, I'm not rolling I am literally holding up, I'm on a keyboard so there is no chance of inputting a directional up, I am holding straight up and I'm getting grabbed straight out of wakeup.
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you niggas baited me that akali is hard and the scooby doo combos in this game arent braindead, downloaded this shit, loaded the combo trials went into some random shit advanced combo 4 and did it in 10 minutes and it only took this long because I don't play this shit and forgot where which button is.
this scooby doo game is so easy and the inputs are so lenient u can just fuck up, take a snore, then figure out u fucked up and still press a button and it will work.
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why is there no combo trial list in the menu, there is only next combo and previous combo.
I have to exit the whole combo trial to pick another one from the list, people actually take this game seriously?
this is something xrd had in 2014, I laugh.
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>>563311771
It's called Advanced for scrubs to feel good trial like any game placing you in Platinum for 20% winrate these days. All of those are easier than any BnB or expert 5 by a mile and it took you 10min lmao
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>>563321193
you can't actually be this delusional...
3 years of support for this game?
there could have been 1 year of extra support if the game was paid and they made an initial decent amount of money, but losing money for 3 more years on top of the existing 10 years?
even I'm not delusional enough to believe that could ever happen
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>>563322226
I worked at a startup that was doing badly and shut down. The practices that I see with the store selling little and asking for a lot and having bundles like that is exactly the same practice that startup did to recoup some of the losses before shutting down, and everyone who bought anything just lost it in the end with no warning before.
This is why I don't buy anything in this game even though I have an interest in some skins, I know that it's money going in the sink.
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>>563324442
id love to but ive gotta get my day started, i'll probably be available tomorrow evening if you wanna hang out
>>563324424
my beard would cushion the blow + literally make it more painful for you than me you don't want this
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>>563329424
It might have to do with her height when she does the first super
https://x.com/TheSynchronize/status/2042940705912357305?s=20
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>>563334019
>jS2 land j(S1 super1) super2
hm.. neat
seems pretty accessible
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not only does the fireball make akali's overhead plus on block,
ahri also starts regenning her cd, opening up akali's 3H blockstring immediately after
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very nice option to have
shame about the burst buildup, as usual
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im learning akali
whats the easiest but also best bnb ty bros
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960 damage
if i come up with a less poverty freestyle usage, it'll probably bump up to 975
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>>563350951
2H starters aren't as reliable as 3H, so i'd recommend this one now
the trickiest part is the microdash 2H delayed j2H, and the rest is easy
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and this is the most beginner friendly version,
with the only tricky part being the slightly delayed j2H at the start
then the rest is free timing
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>>563353573
me too bro
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thanks anon i am homeless
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Also if you're doing your jinx blockstring with bullets and Yas tries to invul super through you can just call assist handshake and block it like so
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